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KNITTED FABRIC Original Filed May 31, 1935 INVENTOR. LOUIS H1R cH \k ATTORNEY.

Patented 1...."16, 193s UNITED STATES KNITTED FABRIC Louis Hirsch, weehswken, N. 1., assignor to Lonii Hirsch Textile Machines, Inc., New York, N. Y a corporation of New York Original application May 31, 1935, Serial No. 24,179. Divided and this application March 3,

1936, Serial No. 66,806

- The invention relates to fashioned hosiery fabric and, in particular; to those parts thereof at which, fashioning or narrowing occurs. Its object is to provide a novel, run-proof loop construction in the needle-wales to which the innermost one or two loops are transferred and in the intermediate sinkerjvale or wales of the narrowed courses. I

-The subject matter of this application has been divided out of a copending application filed by me on May 31, 1935, hearing Serial No. 24,179.

As is well known the usual method of narrowing .is, to transfer a certain number of'loops a.d jiacent the edges of the fabric inwardly either one or two needles, as the case may he, depending upon whether one needle or two needle narrowing is desired. After the loop transferring operation is completed each of the needles involved, except the innermost one or two, still carries a .single loop,-whereas.the innermost one or two needles still support the loops originally formedupon them and the newly transferred loops as well. Occasionally the narrowing points fail to. effect the transfer of the loops to these needles or may cause the needles to split the thread. In

the former case a dropped stitch will result which 1 will develop into a run. In the latter case the loops of the following course will be pulled through the split-thread so thatwhilethe transferred loop will be anchored to the following course after afashion the anchorage will be weak and the thread will almost certainly break during wear, if not immediately. 7 At best the loop structure at this point and, consequently, the strains upon it are abnormal, acondition conducive to runs even when the loop transference has been perfectly performed.

By this invention the fabricis made run-proof upwardly-in these particular needle and- 40 downwardly in the intermediate sinker wales by anovel looptransferring operation in which the innermost one or two loops are not only transferred from the original needles to others but are carried around an additional needle as well, as will be'described. These special loops superposed upon normal loops form the fashioning marks characteristic of high quality hosiery and the eye' is unable to distinguishthe fabric from that in which the narrowing has been done by the conventional method.

The novel loop construction is shown in the drawing, of which Figure 1 represents a full fashioned stoc in which the narrowing is indicated by the well known fashioning marks;

5 Claims. (01. 66 189) loops are each transferred; inwardly two needles 2 is an enlarged view of a fra ment of fabric including the loop construction og this inventionin single needle narrowing;

Fig. 3 is a, similar enlarged view of a fragment of fabric including two needle narrowing in ac 5 cordance with the invention. 7

In Figure 1 the usual narrowed areas to which this invention is applicable are indicated by the typical fashioning marks such as l and 2. These, as is well known, occur in the wales of the norrowing courses in which transferred loops are superposed upon normal loops. This invention is concerned solely with the courses in which such transfer of loops occurs and solely with the one or two innermost loops which are superposed 15 upon normal loops.

The usual practice 'in narrowing is to simply remove the loops affected from the needles upon which they are formed and deposit them upon the next or the second needle. Each transferred 2o loop is still supported by a. single needle. In this invention all of the loops with the exception of the one or twoinner loops are formed and transferred in the usual way. For example, in Fig. 2 which illustrates fabric in which each narrowing 25 is limited to a single needle the loops 3, I and 5 which were originally formed upon needles 6, I and 8 respectively, are transferred one needle to the right in theusuarmanner so that they now hang upon needles I, Band 9 respectively. The

inside loop llljs also transferred to the right from needle 9 to needle II and, in addition, it is carried around the nextneedle II. The result is-that this loop II will be interlinked with two loops of the other needle wales in the following 5 course and needle wales l3 and I4 and sinker wale IE will be run-proofed at this course.

when the fabric is narrowed again in a similar manner corresponding wales will be similarly run-proofed. Consequently, by this invention 40 runs which so frequently start in these wales in the narrowing courses are eliminated without affecting the appearance of the fabric or the general method of making'it.

It'it isdesired to narrow the fabric at the rate of two needles per narrowing operation instead of one needle; the loops are transferred inwardly two needles instead of one. The two innermost loops which. are to be superposed upon normal 50 and each is carried 'aroimd the next needle also.

.fl'his is shown in Fig.3 in which loops I6," "and 1. which were originally formed upon needles I8, 20 and 2! respectively, have. been transferred two needles to the right and deposit 55 ed upon needles 2|, 22 and 23 respectively. Loop 24 has also been transferred two needles and deposited upon needle 25 and, in addition, it has been carried around needle 26. Similarly loop 21 has been transferred two needles, from needle 23, and deposited upon needle 26 andhas also been carried around the following needle 28. The three needle wales 29 and 30 and 3| are thereby run-proofed and the two sinker wales 32 and 33 are run-proofed downwardly. Otherwise the structure of .the stocking is unchanged and its appearance unaltered. Succeeding narrowing operations performed in the same manner will run-proof corresponding wales.

The loop construction described may be advantageously employed wherever narrowing occurs, both in the leg and the foot, or it may be confined to one or more narrowed areas if desired, and the remainder of the narrowing performed in the conventional manner.

To knit the fabric of this invention requires a modification of the standard mechanism of the straight full fashioned knitting machine. Forms suitable for producing the single needle and two needle narrowing of the fabric of this invention are included in the subject matter of my copending application No. 24,179 filed May 31, 1935, of which this application is a division and to which reference may be made.

2. A knitted fabric having a narrowed course i in which each of the innermost pair of transferred loops is linked to two loops of the following course.

3. A knitted fabric having a narrowed course in which both of the innermost pair of transferred loops are linked to one loop in the next course and each is also linked to an individual loop in said next course. a

4. A knitted fabric having a narrowed course in which both of the innermost pair of transferred loops are looped to one loop of the following course, one of said pair also being looped to another loop of said next course on one side of said first mentioned loop and-the other being linked to a loop of said next course on the other side of said first mentioned loop.

5. A knitted fabric having a narrowed course in which the innermost pair of transferred loops 

